What Is the AWS Schema Conversion Tool?

You can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to convert your existing database
schema from one
database engine to another. You can convert relational OLTP schema, or data warehouse
schema. Your converted schema is suitable for an Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS) MySQL DB instance, an
Amazon Aurora DB cluster, an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance, or an Amazon Redshift
cluster. The converted
schema can also be used with a database on an Amazon EC2 instance or stored as data
on an
Amazon S3 bucket.

AWS SCT supports several industry standards, including Federal Information Processing
Standards (FIPS) when connecting to an Amazon S3 bucket or another AWS resource. AWS
SCT is
also compliant with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).

In addition to converting your existing database schema
from one database engine to another,
AWS SCT has some additional features
that help you move your data and applications to the cloud:

You can use data extraction agents
to extract data from your data warehouse
to prepare to migrate it to Amazon Redshift.
To manage the data extraction agents,
you can use AWS SCT.
For more information, see
Using Data Extraction Agents.

You can use AWS SCT
to copy your existing on-premises database schema
to an Amazon RDS DB instance running the same engine.
You can use this feature to analyze
potential cost savings of moving to the cloud
and of changing your license type.